[Haskell-beginners] Parallel mutation

[Jon Harrop]

On Tuesday 08 December 2009 21:37:41 Daniel Fischer wrote:
> Am Dienstag 08 Dezember 2009 21:56:45 schrieb Jon Harrop:
> > Can you mutate different parts of the same array from different threads
> > in parallel using GHC? Someone once told me this was possible but I
> > cannot see how...
>
> You can (take a look at Control.Concurrent), but very probably ***You
> really shouldn't***, so I won't elaborate.
>
> What would you want to do that for?

Efficiency, e.g. parallel quicksort.

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